Survey #176 Response from Barbara
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| Which of the following categories of vulnerable people are present in your household? |
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| To what extent do you feel that clutter in your home represents a threat to the physical health, mental health, or safety of your family? |
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| What obstacles or issues interfere with your ability to address the clutter threats to health and safety in your home? | 1 Items that block access to a window. I have a desk in front of a window. I intend to sell the desk but it is where I deal with the huge number of photos. I don't have another surface. I am an expert at avoiding the photos. It weighs on me, but apparently not enough to get me working regularly at the photo horde. 2 My kitchen is small and I have stored dishtowels in the cupboard above the refrigerator. I have to use a stool to reach them. The obstacle: my lifelong habit of keeping enough canned & dry goods on hand so that I don't have to go to the store to pick up a missing ingredient. I no longer have enough space to do that. I don't have to store food; the supermarket can do that. A little more menu planning and discipline could solve this problem. | ||||||||
| Who is your favorite organizing authority or inspiration besides The Clutter Fairy? | Margareta Magnusson (Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning) | ||||||||
| Future topics | I think a discussion of the different stages of life and how they affect the acquisition of "stuff" might be useful. I started decluttering my personal items in my 40's--books, papers, clothes. But it wasn't until I was close to 60 that I really looked at household items and finance-related papers. (And harking back to last week's topic, my dear husband never got to any downsizing of anything. That left me with a huge chore when he died.) |
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